Luyện nghe bài hát Esther

It was late one night at a fairground near town
When Esther saw the Armenian man
Who groveled her and stood by her side
With a bucket that swung in his

His grin the folds of his pasty white cheeks
And his lips hurled a of murk on the curb
And the lights from the showed a mischievous sparkle
That flashed in his eyed stare

He said, "Little girl, you can chop off my
And then off my socks if you want to
But I'd rather you took this old puppet me
That I in my pail as we speak"

And he stood looking at the innocent girl
And she stared at the bucket
he lifted the doll for the young girl to see
And a giant smile grew on his

She saw the doll's eyes and she couldn't
And she the man quickly and ran to the church
And she burst through the door with puppet held
And a hush filled the chapel and the people mean

Esther tried in to pacify the mob
Quibble grew to spat, to wrangle, to brawl
The frenzied congregation desperately to fetch
The pretty puppet snugly nestled deep in Esther's sack

the window of the church, a storm began to rage
And Esther the time had come to flee
She scurried the aisle toward the doorway in the distance
And out into the rainstorm where she felt she would be

But the wind was harder
And her skirt began to billow, until finally her feet to lift
And she rose the houses and the people and the chimneys
And and the doll were set adrift

higher over the hills
And the valleys and treetops flutter and glide
and turning suspended on air
With the earth far below them tumble
And dive through the

And she to plummet earthward
Till she landed in the part of town
She glanced about the village sure to find the men
Who rob and in the darkest hour of night

Nervously she for the pouch that held the puppet on her rump
Feeling quite outnumbered Esther hid
A pile of lumber, where she waited till the dawn
'Cause it would have been a
To succumb to a hoodlum on the

When the morning came, she through the streets
Along the chilly lake that lay beside the
At last a peaceful moment, but she thought she heard a
It was an angry mob of coming up to knock her down

As stood and shook her head the joggers were approaching
And she knew she had no left but to swim
As the water sank its bitter teeth into her hide
She tried to slide the clothing from her skin

now she made her way toward the shore
When suddenly she felt a tiny at her toe
And the puppet she'd wrapped its tiny
Little around her ankle and wouldn't let her go

The waves to open and swallow her whole
As the doll pulled her down through the eerie green
And the of the laughing old man filled her ears
As she away to a tranquil and motionless sleep